Edward Markey actually said...

"We now know that time is running out."

"Well, Senator Gardner and I and other members of this committee, we clearly want to intensify the level of pressure on North Korea."

"Have you asked for negotiations with the North Koreans?"

"So what the administration is saying, then, is that you believe in a negotiated settlement of this issue of the development of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles by North Korea, b..."